Flora ‘꽃' (2018)
Trailer for Flora
Film stills from Flora
Technical Info
Original Title: 꽃 | English Title: Flora
Format: DCP, 24fps, ProRes, H264
Sound: Surround 5.1, stereo
Process: Black & White & Color
Resolution: 16:9, HD, 1920x1080
Runtime: 4min 17sec
Country: USA, South Korea
Credits
Director: Chaerin Im
Animation: Chaerin Im
Compositing: Chaerin Im
Editing: Chaerin Im
Voice-over: Bronwyn Maloney
Music & Sound Design : Roger Kim
Soundmix: Craig Smith
Distribution
Chaerin Im
Technique
Frame-by-frame CG animation
Logline
Experimental piece about gender and sexuality, the awkwardness of division.
Synopsis
Experimental animation about gender and sexuality, the awkwardness of division. Uncanny sculptures of vagina and penis are the main element.
Director’s Note
The contradiction between two gender and the awkwardness of dividing them has been my main concern throughout my life. Although I was born as s a female, I never had affection or interest in objects or traits that matched the ‘feminine’ category. At the same time, I never felt that I should have been a male.
This ambiguity of my gender status became the background of '꽃'. The experimental film consists of 3D sculptures with uncanny forms that resemble a penis or vagina, separate or both at the same time.
Poster for Flora
Festival Screenings
◆ = Oscar, BAFTA, Canadian Screen Award, or European Film Award Qualifying
California Institute of the Arts, School of Film/Video Showcase (Panorama Showcase, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA)
May 1, 2018
◆61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Next Masters Short Competition, Leipzig, Germany)
October 29, 2018
◆48th Alcine - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid (Sex And Society Section, Madrid, Spain)
November 9, 2018
11th Animasivo - Contemporary Animation Festival of Mexico City (Student Category, Mexico City, Mexico)
November 28, 2018
NOMINATED: BEST EXPERIMENTAL8th Eindhoven Film Festival (Experimental Short Category, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
November 29, 2018
36th Festival Tous Courts Aix-En-Provence (4th Experimental Short Film Competition, Aix-en-Provence, France)
December 4, 2018
8th Pink Life QueerFest (Short Selection of Preferred Physicians, Ankara, Turkey)
January 24, 2019
5th FICME - Merida Film Festival (Short Film Competition, Merida, Mexico)
February 7, 2019
40th Brussels Independent Film Festival (Official Selection, Brussels, Belgium)
February 10, 2019
4th Medellin International Film Festival - Festmedallo (International Short Film Competition, Medellin, Colombia)
February 14, 2019
14th Athens Animfest (Experimental Competition, Athens, Greece)
March 12, 2019
◆12th Glasgow Short Film Festival (International Competition, Glasgow, Scotland)
March 13, 2019
◆24th BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Official Selection, London, UK)
March 21, 2019
4th GLAS Animation Festival (US Competition, Berkeley, CA, USA)
March 21, 2019
11th FICAM - Festival International de Cinéma d’Animation de Meknès (International Short Animated Film Competition, Official Selection, Meknes, Morocco)
March 22, 2019
10th Chalon Tout Court Festival (Official Selection, Chalon-sur-Saône, France)
April 4, 2019
2nd Swindon Independent Film Festival (Official Selection, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK)
April 15, 2019
5th Ibrida - Festival Delle Arti Intermediali (Official Selection, Forlì, Italy)
April 26, 2019
32rd European Media Art Festival (Official Selection, Osnabrück, Germany)
April 24th, 2019
10th Leiden International Short Film Experience (Official Selection, Leiden, The Netherlands)
May 9, 2019
14th Xposed International Queer Film Festival (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)
May 9, 2019
7th Short@Fringe - Azores Fringe Festival (Official Selection, Azores, Portugal)
May 24, 2019
◆16th VIS Vienna Shorts - International Festival for Short Film, Animation & Music Video (International Competition Animation Avantgarde, Vienna, Austria)
May 28, 2019
7th Altan Khalis International Film Festival (Official Selection, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
June 4, 2019
5th Montevideo World Film Festival (Official Selection, Montevideo, Uruguay)
July 11, 2019
1st Northeast Mountain Film Festival (Official Selection, Dillard, Georgia, USA)
June 14, 2019
BEST ARTWORK5th Innuendo International Film Festival (Official Selection, Milano, Italy)
July 26, 2019
10th Bangalore Queer Film Festival (Official Selection, Bangalore, India)
August 1, 2019
4th Regina International Film Festival (Official Selection, Regina, Canada)
August 13, 2019
11th Lviv International Short Film Festival - Wiz-Art (Official Selection, Lviv, Ukraine)
August 19, 2019
14th Linoleum Contemporary Animation & Media Art Festival (Official Selection, Kyiv, Ukraine)
September 4, 2019
Ars Electronica Animation Festival (“Best Of” Selection, Linz, Austria)
September 5, 2019
16th Queer City Cinema Film Festival (Official Selection, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
September 18, 2019
15th Indie-Anifest (First Flight Selection, Seoul, South Korea)
September 19, 2019
3rd Supernova Digital Animation Festival (Special Curated Program, Denver, CO, United States)
September 21, 2019
8th Wasteland Film Festival (Official Selection, Outside of California City, CA, USA)
September 26, 2019
3rd Bolton International Film Festival (Official Selection, Bolton, UK)
October 1, 2019
17th Videoqueer - LGBTQ Short Movie Competition (Official Selection, Firenze, Italy)
October 15, 2019
14th Porn Film Festival Berlin (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)
October 22, 2019
SPECIAL MENTION3rd The Animattikon Project (Extra-cinematic Animation, Paphos, Cyprus)
October 26, 2019
6th Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Official Selection of Night Moves Program, Budapest, Hungary)
October 30, 2019
Reanima - Bergen International Animation Festival (Official Selection, Bergen, Norway)
November 14, 2019
◆23rd Black Nights Film Festival - Pöff Shorts (Non-Competitive Section, Tallinn, Estonia)
November 19, 2019
5th Animation Marathon Film Festival (Official Selection, Athens, Greece)
November 21, 2019
24th Caminhos Film Festival (Official Selection, Coimbra, Portugal)
November 23, 2019
5th Pori Film Festival (Official Selection, City of Pori, Finland)
November 27, 2019
17th Anilogue International Animation Festival (Official Selection, Budapest, Hungary)
November 27, 2019
NOMINATED: BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN13th Grand Off World Independent Short Film Awards (Official Selection, Warsaw, Poland)
November 28, 2019
6th Porny Days - Film Kunst Festival (Official Selection, Zurich, Switzerland)
November 28, 2019
3rd Beijing International Short Film Festival (Siphon - Experimental Film Cartridge - Exhibition, Beijing, China)
November 29, 2019
BEST ANIMATION3rd Berlin Student Film Festival (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)
December 29, 2019
2nd Revolutions Per Minute Festival (Official Selection, Boston, MA, USA)
January 31, 2020
15th Beloit International Film Festival (Official Selection, Beloit, WI, United States)
February 21, 2020
17th Zinegoak - Bilbao International LGTBIQA+ Film and Performing Arts Festival (Official Selection, Bilbao, Spain)
February 24, 2020
26th International Short Film Week Regensburg (Special Program - Focus: Nature & Sustainability, Regensburg, Germany)
March 11, 2020
23rd International Encounters Traverse (Official Selection, Toulouse, France)
March 11, 2020
25th Festival International d'Arts Numériques de Clermont-Ferrand - VIDEOFORMES (Official Selection, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
March 12, 2020
18th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival (Official Selection, Istanbul, Turkey)
March 12, 2020
33rd Images Festival (In Support of Sex Work program, Toronto, Canada)
April 6, 2020
22rd Equinoxio University Film Festival (Allied Festivals : DOK Leipzig, Bogota, Colombia)
September 17, 2020
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM4th Trans Stellar Film Festival (Official Selection, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
November 6, 2020
12th Anibar International Animation Festival (Experimental Special Program, Peja, Kosovo)
July 23, 2021
Cinema Queer Film Festival (Queer Animation, Stockholm, Sweden)
October 3, 2022
Event Screenings
‘The Self and the Other’ - ISMIS
International Student Moving Image Showcase co-presented by the California Institute of the Arts and Ravensbourne University London, in partnership with Saatchi Gallery, London
August 25, 2021
‘Feminist Invasion’
Queer short film night at the Academy of Arts in Munich, Germany
June 11, 2019
10th Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival
Glasgow Short Film Festival presents Shifting Ground(15) - Yurt Cinema in Scottish summer music festival, UK
July 19, 2019
‘Previously on XPOSED!’
Extra screening of XPOSED film festival in Freiluftkino, Kreuzberg, Germany
July 25, 2019
Meow Wolf ‘Dark Palace’
“Remixed” animations screened in Meow Wolf event held at the National Western Complex, Denver, USA
November 22, 2019
Budapest Pride ‘A mágikus cell bemutatja: LMBTQ animációk #4’
Dot & Line presents the latest LGBTQ-themed animated short films in Budapest Pride
August 18, 2020